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Decorator
Garden Border Artist (active circa 1808-32)
Accession Number
PAG1998.019
Creation Date
12-6-1822
Description
Bookplate made for a Bible with red and green floral border framed in blue, scalloped pen and ink decoration inside of border.
Dimensions in Inches
9 x 6 5/8
Dimensions in Centimeters
23 x 17
Materials
Watercolor and ink on woven paper
Technique
Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered
Decorator Location
Southeast Pennsylvania
Category
Bookplate
Motifs
floral, tulips
Rights
Please contact the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College for permissions which fall outside of educational fair use.
Source
Ursinus College Library Special Collections and the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Provenance
Pennsylvania Folklife Society
Script/Text
Fraktur lettering, German script
Language
German
Transcription
Diese Bibel/ist das Eigenthum/von/Catharina Eby./Dieses Buch ist dir gegeben/zum weg zur Wahrheit u zum Leben/Drum laß dich keine zeit gereuen/Die du mit Lesen bringest zu;/Sondern vielmehr in Gottes Wort erfreuen/Weil draus kommt die Wahre seelen-ruh./December den 6ten im jahr/unsers Herrn/1822.
Translation
This Bible is the property of Catharina Eby. This book is given to you on your path of truth and life: Therefore let yourself not regret the time That you will spend reading; But rather, rejoice much more in God’s word. Because from this comes the true peace of the soul. December the 6th in the year of our Lord 1822.
Comment
The Garden Border Artist, probably a schoolmaster, wrote in both English and German and is easily recognized by his distinctive floral borders. Three other bookplates made for members of the Eby family are known to exist, dated 1808, 1814, and 1816. This artist also made song bookplates and hymn bookplates in Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania.
Condition
Good
Published
Minardi, Lisa. Roots: Ursinus College and the Pennsylvania Germans (Trappe, Pa.: Historic Trappe, 2019), p. 101, fig. 3.76. Earnest, Corinne and Russell. Papers for Birth Dayes: A Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners, 2nd edition, 2 vols. (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997). vol. 2, 300, and The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia (Breinigsville, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1976). vol. 2, plates 129, 778, 779.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, bookplate
Image Location
Rights Statement
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